{"product_id":"beethoven-paperback-2","title":"Beethoven - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the latest international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First, composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his life: \"I live entirely in my music,\" he once wrote. Second, recent study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and original features. It also reexamines virtually all the evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it offers numerous new details derived\u003cbr\u003efrom sketch studies and a new edition of Beethoven's correspondence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and work in illuminating ways, \u003cem\u003eBeethoven\u003c\/em\u003e will establish itself as \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e reference on one of the world's greatest composers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Cooper\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester and author of \u003cem\u003eBeethoven and the Creative Process\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBeethoven's Folksong Settings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 466\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.08 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724622630975,"sku":"9780195313314","price":70.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/71352619c4d8e7fac3e047688cb651d4.webp?v=1765103318","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/beethoven-paperback-2","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}